The word "steers" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to the act of guiding or directing a vehicle or another object in a particular direction. For example: "John steers the boat towards the shore."
The need for brevity also steers Mr Wood into skimpy armchair psychology, and he deduces his subject's state of mind from file photographs.
Weaned steers fetch higher prices because they have been hardened by circumstance and do not bellow.
They misbehave, they break the dishes, make an awful lot of noise, and they are scaring away other customers".Mr Kenyon steers his parties towards hotels, bars and restaurants that like that kind of business.
Software developed by Probayes, a firm based near Grenoble, in France, identifies and then steers clear of drivers who are angry, drowsy, tipsy or aggressive.
The personal sanctions have little to do with the country's economic plight and yet, as our briefing this week explains, they hand Mr Mugabe a populist excuse for it.Nevertheless the West (and in particular Britain, which still steers Europe's policy on Zimbabwe) should now change course and offer to lift the sanctions in return for a few critically important pledges by Mr Mugabe.
SIR — Your otherwise well-reasoned and enjoyable paper's knee-jerk commitment to abortion on demand continues to baffle me, and it is a blind spot that steers you into all kinds of hypocritical silliness.
Mr Barton and his supporters objected strongly.A new book on Jefferson's religion, "Doubting Thomas", steers a middle course.
Politicians dismiss accusations as vengeance or fantasy; women, sometimes threatened, fear for their jobs or reputations; the press steers clear.The DSK affair is changing all this.
Steers are lined up row after row, fat and gleaming in black, caramel and dove grey, beautiful and immaculately groomed.
"Free Trade Today" is mostly accessible and steers clear of technicality, but Mr Bhagwati was talking to economists and economics students, and it shows especially in the first chapter, which zooms through the intellectual history of anti-trade thinking.
Mr Montefiore steers a clear path through the religious animosities and political intrigues that continue to this day, adopting a strikingly apolitical tone.He adds richness by including sources not usually available in English.
